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Government strategy is to try to cut off key logistical supply routes and recapture some of the patchwork of territory that isis does control. this operation taking place in two provinces, anbar where ramadi is located. we were at one of these front lines between those two key areas. one of these iranian-backed shia para military forces one scathing of the united states saying iran was their only true ally. we did in fact see iranian advisers on the ground although we were not allowed to speak or film them. around ramadi the iraqi government massing forces that include both the army and the mi...

flattening homes, flooding out the roads, the grim flyover coming up next. >> a republican language barrier. rick santorum and mitt romney sparring over english in puerto rico. >> just needs to be a bilingual country and not just spanish-speaking and right now it's overwhelmingly spanish speaking and needs to fully integrate. >> fallout. will rick santorum's stand cost him delegates and latino votes. ipad fever is gripping the planet. the tablets are flying off the store shelves sending apple's stock price soaring to unprecedented heights. >> it is one minute now past 5:00. new det...

today marks one year since syria's uprising began with a day of rage. it is clear the rage has not let up. we're keeping an eye, too, on afghanistan. defense secretary leon panetta just met with president hamid karzai as the u.s. soldier who is a kutsed of slaughtering 16 people is moved from the country. the washington monument is sinking. it's sunk a fraction of an inch since the quake hit last august. today the circus ends and the prison sentence begins. former governor rob blagojevich has left illinois and might not be back for quite some time. he's on his way right now to ...

neck-in-neck with his top gop rivals. james carville and david are standing by. we'll talk about that. i'm wolf blitzer and you're in "the situation room." a new wave of fury may be about to explode in afghanistan after a u.s. soldier allegedly walked out of his base and went on a house to house shooting rampage. 16 civilians are dead, nine of them children. military authorities say the soldier acted alone and turned himself in. vowing revenge for the killings, a statement from the taliban calls u.s. forces and i'm quoting, sick-minded american savages. u.s. officials are voicing d...

General petraeus a chance to succeed. >> there i agree with you. i don't understand what is gained by beginning the withdrawal now as opposed to july -- >> but i really am skeptical about counterinsurgency in afghanistan. i mean, i think in the mind of petraeus and his whole staff is exactly your point, iraq. that's where petraeus had his great success with the surge. it's become a cliche that afghanistan is not iraq, but somehow it's a cliche that no one seems to absorb and take the meaning of. they are completely different countries. in iraq it wasn't just counterinsurgency with combat outpo...